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By: Jorge Amado

ISBN: 9780143106357
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2013
UK Publication Date: 5th December 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Previously published: New York, N.Y.: Avon, c1988.


(Paperback)

By: Jorge Amado

ISBN: 9781846559754
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2015
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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As if in answer to their calll, Captain Vasco Moscosco de Aragao (newly retired) arrives and soon has the townspeople enthralled with his tales of ocean-going daring and romance. But just as Vasco is about to be unmaksked the Ita limps into port with her flag at half mast and her captain dead at the wheel.


(Paperback)

By: Jorge Amado

ISBN: 9781846559761
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2015
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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A big, brawling novel of waterfront life in Bahia, packed with cardsharpers, prostitutes, pimps, drunks and homeless Don Juans and Messalinas.

The things that happen in Shepherds of the Night are bound to happen once the cleverest of the Don Juans marries an out-of-town prostitute and tires of her;


(Paperback)

By: Jorge Amado

ISBN: 9780553346664
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 1989
Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc
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In his unanimously praised novel full of sex and adventure, violence and courage, Amado has created a South American "Western" and people it with wonderfully earthy characters from his childhood.


(Paperback)

By: Jorge Amado

ISBN: 9780553374407
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 1995
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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The holy icon of Saint Barbara of the Thunder is bound for the city of Bahia for an exhibition of holy art. As the boat that bears the image is docking, a miracle occurs and Saint Barbara comes to life, disappearing into the milling crowd on the quay. It is up to her to save a young woman from missing out on the love of a lifetime.